The democratic sublime on aesthetics and popular assembly Frank, Jason A. creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2021 2021 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages) : illustrations (some color). "In a series of articles written for the Neue Rhenische Zeitung in 1850, later published by Friedrich Engels as The Class Struggles in France, Karl Marx looked back on the failed French revolution of 1848 and attempted to explain how the democratic aspirations that inspired the February assault on the July Monarchy-and promised to fulfill the dashed hopes of 1789, 1792, and 1830-also led to its termination in the reactionary popular dictatorship of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Popular sovereignty, which had so often defined the emancipatory visions of two generations of radical activists and thinkers was now not only an obstacle to genuine emancipation, but a plebiscitary source of power for newly emergent forms of political domination. Bonapartism became, for Marx, an important way of understanding the complex internal dynamics of popular-and later "populist"--Authoritarianism. It is an analysis that continues to resonate powerfully today. The national enthusiasm that propelled the revolution forward, and which overturned the hated regime of Louis Phillippe in three glorious days, had successfully established for the first time in history a parliamentary republic based in universal male suffrage. The Second Republic's provisional government was immediately thrown into a legitimation crisis, however, by the underlying sectional, parliamentary, and class conflicts lurking beneath its illusory foundation in the people's unitary will. When the popular classes of Paris returned to the barricades in June to protest the conservative government's closure of the National Workshops-and to convert the political revolution into a social revolution based in the "right to work"-they were abandoned by their fellow citizens and thousands were massacred in the streets by Cavaignac's National Guard. The "fantastic republic" built around the pretensions of national unity, Marx proclaimed, quickly "dissolved in powder and smoke." Tocqueville described the June days as a "slave's war," and in its aftermath the Party of Order quickly consolidated its power against any furthering of revolutionary aspiration"-- Preface : the beautiful revolution -- Introduction : beyond democracy's imaginary investments -- Popular manifestation -- Rousseau's silent assemblies -- The living image of the people -- Delightful horror -- The poetics of the barricades -- Tocqueville's religious terror -- Afterword : democratic appearance. Jason Frank. Includes bibliographical references and index. Democracy Philosophy Democracy History 19th century Aesthetics Political aspects History, Modern 19th century Histoire 19e siècle Social History HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE History & Theory SOCIAL SCIENCE Aesthetics Political aspects Democracy Democracy Philosophy History, Modern 1800-1899 fast JC423 .F7468 2021 321.8 Democratic sublime Frank, Jason A. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 (DLC) 2020044732 (OCoLC) 1202731300 9780190658175 0190658177 9780190658182 0190658185 9780190658199 0190658193 9780190658151 9780190658168 2020044733 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/39538 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190658151.001.0001/oso-9780190658151 DLC 201020 20260319182925.7 in00005719212 eng